The search for sufficient energy for future generations.

 

This activity will promote active participation among students and make them aware that sufficient energy for future generations is one of the most important problems in the European Union for the upcoming years. As European citizens these students are the next generation who will make decisions concerning the use of sustainable energy which have to leads among other things to a reduction of the emission of greenhouse gases and thus a cleaner environment. It is therefore logical to involve our students in the discussion of energy transition and challenge them to come up with solutions and ideas how to achieve. During the project week they will work in mixed groups on issues of transformating buildings into micro-power plants, thus creating many jobs, deploying hydrogen and other technologies to store energy locally, developing a smart energy-sharing intergrid that acts just like the internet, enabling each building to sell surplus back to the grid and transitioning to electric vehicles that can buy local surplus energy on a smart, interactive power grid while parked. Furthermore students will meet and work with entrepreneurs and scientist who are active in the field of the energy transition. 

Students have to come up with concrete plans and opportunities for energy transition in the respective countries as well as they have to develope a website on which they present their results, including recommendations and proposals for the European Parliament, national politics and households.